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on it, ii. 166; iv. 167. _Utopia_, iii. 202, n. 3. UTRECHT, Boswell a student there, i. 400, 473; ii. 9; William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a student, ii. 177, n. 1. UTTOXETER MARKET, Johnson does penance there, i. 56, n. 2; iv. 373; Michael Johnson's shop, i. 36, n. 3. UZa^S, Duke of, iii. 322, n. 3. V. VACANCIES, eagerness for, iii. 251. VACHELL, William, iii. 83, n. 3. VACUUM, i. 444, n. 2. 'VAGABOND, Mr.,' iii. 411, n. 1. _Vagabondo, Il_, i. 202; iii. 411. VAILS, ii. 78. VALENCIA, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 434. VALETUDINARIANS, ii. 460; Johnson's disgust at them, iii. 1, 152. VALLANCY, Colonel, iv. 272, 278. VANBRUGH, Sir John, attempted to answer Jeremy Collier, iv. 286, n. 3; _Provoked Husband_, ii. 48, n. 3; iv. 284, n. 2; Reynolds's tribute to him, iv. 55. VANE, Anne, v. 49, n. 4. VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4. _Vanessa_, ii. 389, n. 1. _Vanity of Human Wishes_, account of it, i. 192-5; price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1; rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15; written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192; Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2; Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106; De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3; Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194; Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3; misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179; 'Patron and the jail,' i. 264; _Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342; Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3; _spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8; Vane and Sedley, v. 49; Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4. VANSITTART, Dr., account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1; story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 192. VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144. VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163. VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3. VENICE, Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1; Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19; mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3. VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104. _Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3. VERACITY. See TRUTH. _Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256. _Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1. VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1. VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395; theatre, ii. 395, n. 2. VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371; making them, ii. 15. _Verses on Ireland_, iii. 319. _Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle_, i. 92. _Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison_, ii. 26. VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311. VESEY, Right Hon. Agm
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